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BornCity’s latest dispatch raises a subtle but important question: did Microsoft quietly neutralize the wave of SSD failures reported from Japan after the August 2025 Windows 11 24H2 roll‑out, or did the alarm simply fade after vendors and Redmond concluded they could not reproduce a systemic...

Mozilla has quietly pushed the Firefox 115 Extended Support Release (ESR) safety net forward again: security updates for Firefox 115 on legacy desktops — specifically Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and older macOS builds — will continue through March 2026, with Mozilla planning a formal...

Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 — shipped as KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946) on August 12, 2025 — has become the subject of two very different but intersecting headaches: an enterprise deployment regression that broke WSUS/SCCM installs (error 0x80240069) and a cluster of...

The UK Department for Business and Trade’s three‑month pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot returned a cautious but informative verdict: users reported high satisfaction and clear wins on text‑based tasks, yet the measurable productivity gains were small, use‑case dependent, and offset in places by...

Microsoft’s decision to unveil its first in-house foundation models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — marks a deliberate strategic shift: Microsoft is moving from an AI product strategy that leaned heavily on OpenAI’s frontier models toward an orchestrated, multi‑model architecture that blends...

Microsoft has quietly added a new diagnostic aimed at keeping Copilot agents working reliably inside Microsoft Teams: the Copilot Agent Functionality Diagnostic — a customer-facing validator now accessible through Microsoft’s diagnostic surfaces and designed to surface licensing, permission, and...

Microsoft has concluded its investigation into the mid‑August reports that a recent Windows 11 security rollup (commonly tracked as KB5063878) “bricked” or corrupted some SSDs, saying it found no reproducible link between the update and the wave of drive disappearances — a position echoed by SSD...

Nexthink’s warning that “sticking with Windows 10 could cost businesses billions” captured headlines for a reason: a simple arithmetic model — 121 million Windows 10 PCs multiplied by an enterprise Extended Security Update (ESU) list price of $61 per device — produces a first‑year bill in the...

Mozilla’s decision to keep Firefox 115 ESR alive for older machines is the latest twist in a multi-stage, pragmatic approach to supporting users who remain on end-of-life operating systems — the Extended Support Release for Firefox 115 will now be maintained for Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1 and...

Microsoft quietly expanded the Bing interface this summer by adding keyword suggestions adjacent to a floating Copilot search box, a small-looking tweak with outsized implications for how users discover, refine, and are nudged toward conversational search—an experiment first surfaced by industry...

The City of Montréal has quietly turned a classic municipal pain point—finding timely information on services, schedules and rules—into a 24/7 conversational surface by deploying a virtual agent built with Microsoft Copilot Studio that now answers citizen questions across the city’s public...

More than half of the world’s personal computers remain on Windows 10 with just weeks to go before Microsoft’s scheduled end-of-support date, according to a dataset Kaspersky shared via a Technology For You write-up — a situation that tightens the window for safe, budgeted migrations and forces...

Mozilla has quietly added Microsoft Copilot to Firefox Nightly’s built‑in AI sidebar, bringing the same Quick Response, Think Deeper and a new “Smart (GPT‑5)” mode that Microsoft uses in Edge — a move that accelerates browser-level AI competition but raises immediate questions about privacy...

Microsoft says a fresh internal review has found no direct link between the August 12, 2025 Windows 11 security update (KB5063878) and the social-media reports that some users’ NVMe and SATA drives became inaccessible or suffered data corruption — even as independent tests, vendor investigations...

Microsoft’s audit of the August Windows 11 cumulative update has closed one chapter of an unusually noisy storage scare, but it has left behind a tangle of reproducible community tests, partial vendor confirmations, and unanswered forensic questions that IT teams and power users should still...

Microsoft’s definitive update: after an internal review and partner testing, the company says the August 2025 Windows 11 security rollup did not directly corrupt or “brick” SSDs — but the incident has exposed a fragile interaction between OS updates, SSD controller firmware, and real-world...

Microsoft is rolling out a string of changes to how Windows 11 handles update downloads and installations for managed office PCs — moving from a largely opaque, user-driven experience toward a more controllable, policy-driven model that lets IT teams decide when devices should download and...

Microsoft says its August Windows 11 security update (KB5063878) is not behind the recent wave of reports alleging SSDs and HDDs have been rendered inaccessible or corrupted, but the episode has exposed gaps in forensic clarity and left many users mistrustful of a conclusion drawn without a...

Microsoft’s desktop era is fragmenting in plain sight: while Windows 11’s adoption has surged—pushing close to or past the halfway mark on some charts—an increasing number of users are quietly defecting to Windows‑style Linux distributions that promise a familiar UI without Microsoft’s...

Microsoft and Phison have now all but closed the book on the late‑August panic: after weeks of community reports, lab reproductions and headlines warning that Windows 11 24H2’s August cumulative (KB5063878) was “bricking” SSDs, thorough vendor and Microsoft testing found no reproducible link...